In the film Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015, to save his children, yet to be born in Back to the Future’s 1985.

Released in 1989, the film saw the characters transported into the future where kids wore their pockets on the outside of their jeans and power laces on their trainers; hoverboards were a popular form of transport, and cars flew. And who could forget dehyrated pizzas!

We might not have advanced that far yet, but some of the film’s predictions were correct including tablets, video calls and hands-free gaming.

The time-hopping trilogy was hugely popular in the 80s, so to join in the Back to the Future Day celebrations we’ve taken a trip down memory lane to see what Newcastle and the North East looked like on the day that Marty and Doc Brown flew to the future.

We’ve ventured back into our photo archives and created a gallery of Newcastle in 1985 which includes the town’s first pate bar, Geordie Aid and Newcastle United winning the FA Youth Cup.

Life in Newcastle has certainly changed over the last 30 years - some of our best Lost Newcastle stories are below: